There is a large community of Chinese migrants residing in the Republic of Congo.
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Population
Official data from the Embassy of China states there are 5,000 Chinese in the Congo. However, Congolese academic Edwige Kamitewoko estimates the number of Chinese to range between 15,000-25,000. In a Marien Ngouabi University survey of 227 Chinese migrants, 44% of the respondents were from Zhejiang, particularly Qingtian County and Wenzhou.
Business
Many Chinese migrants arrived with the aim of starting a businesses, opening shops, restaurants, hotels, photo labs, pharmacies, and hospitals. The retail shops run by Chinese nationals are engaged in all manner of goods including furniture, cosmetics, clothing, computer and electronic products and even baked goods.
Several Chinese engineering firms work in Congo as contractors for major infrastructure projects and employ Chinese construction workers as a part of the overall workforce. At a Beijing Construction Engineering Group construction site in March 2012 in Brazzaville, 6 Chinese workers were killed and dozens injured when a blast occurred after a fire at a munitions depot devastated the adjacent neighborhood.